Artist Notes:"What can be more beautiful than a girl bending over the front end of a classic car holding a wrench? I knew I wanted to paint one. So I sketched out a few ideas. At a local car show in New Jersey I saw the perfect car, a 1957 tomato red Chevy Bel Air convertible. I met the owner and set up a photo shoot. Then I chose one of my best friend's daughters to pose, a local beauty, a real Jersey tomato!

On a beautiful Autumn day as Sarah bent over that car in her short shorts and smiled at me, I couldn’t figure which was more beautiful -- her or the car."